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O’Malley: $130 Million Poured into Baltimore a ‘Spit in a Bucket’
Breitbart ^ | 2015-05-03 | Pam Key

Posted on 05/03/2015 9:32:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD), a potential candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, said the $130 million poured into Baltimore by government is “a spit in the bucket.”

When host Chuck Todd asked, “This morning The Washington Post has this headline, ‘Why couldn’t 130 million transform Baltimore’s poorest places?’ One-hundred-thirty million dollars was poured into this community over the last twenty years. Are we not spending the money correctly? What are we getting wrong here? Money has been there. What do we get wrong?”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Massachusetts; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2016election; baltimore; berniesanders; blackkk; cromnibus; doddfrank; election2016; elijahcummings; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; lieawatha; martinomalley; maryland; massachusetts; omalley; omalley2016; vermont
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TRANSLATION: "We haven't stolen enough money from the people who earned it and given it to people who didn't yet."
1 posted on 05/03/2015 9:32:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because most of that money went DIRECTLY to the pockets of connected Democrats, NOT “helping the people”.


2 posted on 05/03/2015 9:35:02 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Keep that mess in Maryland.


3 posted on 05/03/2015 9:35:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The man is an idiot. He has demonstrated that they do not know how to turn 130 mil into something. In business you take any amount of capital and the game is to turn it into more.

If they have nothing to show with 130 mil more will not help except to end up in the pockets of the leadership.


4 posted on 05/03/2015 9:35:30 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: tcrlaf

From Humane Society website:
4. Wild animals who depend on people for food can cause injuries or spread disease. When wild animals gather for food handouts, it can cause crowding and competition. These unnatural conditions increase the chances of fighting and injury among animals. It can also increase the spread of diseases, some of which may be transmitted to pets and humans.


5 posted on 05/03/2015 9:36:32 AM PDT by all the best
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
TRANSLATION: "We haven't stolen enough money from the people who earned it and given it to people who didn't yet."

And when it's transferred from working whites to thugs then it will be transferred to the drug lords....and the cycle starts again...infinity.

6 posted on 05/03/2015 9:37:35 AM PDT by Aria
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To: GilGil
In business you take any amount of capital and the game is to turn it into more.

In socialism, you take any amount of tax money, and the game is to turn it into more gibsmedats.

The Maryland communists took 130 million taxpayer dollars, and turned Baltimordor into a city full of gibsmedats. Not a bad return on their 'investment' ...

7 posted on 05/03/2015 9:40:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was in a hotel in Seattle with the news on. A woman was being interviewed and she wailed, “we give the homeless free shelter, medical and food. Why...Oh, why do we still have a homeless problem?” I came out of the bathroom to watch the newsman slam her down. He just made an affirming noise as she continued.

You have poverty because you are giving people money instead of making it easy for businesses to employ them.


8 posted on 05/03/2015 9:40:39 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Money doesn’t fix what’s broken in Baltimore.


9 posted on 05/03/2015 9:43:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: NorthMountain

You nailed it exactly. You can’t spend the way out of poverty. Cut off the food stamps and welfare and put them to wrk cleaning up their own cess pools.


10 posted on 05/03/2015 9:43:32 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"One-hundred-thirty million dollars was poured into this community over the last twenty years."

That works out to $6.5 million per year. Which wouldn't cover Obama's White House entertainment budget. Sure they don't mean "billion"?

11 posted on 05/03/2015 9:45:30 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“A spit in the bucket”....so was he asked how much would be enough? 300 Million? 1 Billion? 50 Trillion? When someone quantifies their answer in such a way, the follow up should be, “Well, then how much would it take?”.


12 posted on 05/03/2015 9:49:31 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Federal workers in Baltimore pounding sand into rat holes: pounding sand in a rathole photo: Pounding 08VillageWork06.jpg
13 posted on 05/03/2015 9:49:56 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: all the best

Food banks are where I give most of my charity money. People need to eat.

I do not believe the government should be telling me where to give my charity money. Jesus told me to give to the feds what’s “theirs”, or, taxes. He left the rest up to me.


14 posted on 05/03/2015 9:57:44 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: NorthMountain

The wealth transfer from makers to takers are the only thing keeping populations in those cities; the cities are being artificially prevented from dying the natural death an area with nothing to offer but high taxes and aging infrastructure should meet.


15 posted on 05/03/2015 10:01:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: NorthMountain

+1


16 posted on 05/03/2015 10:07:34 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Frankly I have nothing that belongs to Caesar or Obama either.


17 posted on 05/03/2015 10:10:29 AM PDT by all the best
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

HA. Dumping tax payer money in to Baltimore DID transform Baltimore. Section 8 and welfare people moved in, successful people who built the city left. The surest way to destroy a city is to dump welfare money in to it.


18 posted on 05/03/2015 11:05:52 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why in the world should we pour our money into a city where the residents routinely burn down and loot buildings and businesses. Only a retard would do that.


19 posted on 05/03/2015 11:28:39 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: conservativejoy
My guess is that $130 million doesn't seem that much compared to all the federal assistance Baltimorons get monthly.

People often misconstrue criticism of the welfare state for racisim. History shows us that the Great Society wasn't the government's first attempt at cradle to grave, but the effects have been he same. The placement of Native Americans on reservations was a perfect demonstration of what the poor in this country had to look forward to. Within a couple generations of "helping" the Indians, tribes of hearty, self sufficient people were reduced to a life of poverty on the reservation. 100 years later, a trip to Pine Ridge or Rosebud is a stark reminder of what happens when the government promises to help.

The motivation of the government back then was obvious. They wanted Natives out of the way for westward expansion. The question now is what is the government's motivation here...how about a permanent class of poor that will vote for big government.

20 posted on 05/03/2015 11:36:13 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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